Strangers on Country by David Hartley, Kirsty Murray
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Age range 8+ Giom, Anco and Duramboi are the names of just three young shipwreck survivors and convict escapees who were given refuge by Indigenous communities during the nineteenth century. No one knows exactly how many received sustenance from the local people, but there are some documented accounts ...Show more
Camp Canberra: By the Smart and Excellent Students of Mount Mayhem Primary School by Krys Saclier
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The students of Mount Mayhem Primary are on their school trip to Canberra. Their teacher, Ms Sparks says they will visit places of National Significance and learn about Australian History and Government. Who knew Canberra could be so interesting!
Last Man Out: A personal account of the Gallipoli Evacuation by Louise Park
$8.00 AUD
$24.99 (67% off)
Category: History
The evacuation from Gallipoli of Australian and New Zealand troops was a logistically incredible undertaking. The exhausted young men were to slip away by ship in the dead of night. But… Someone needed to remain behind to cover for their fellow soldiers. This was a mission that almost certainly meant de ...Show more
National Sorry Day (Special Days) by Jane Pfeiffer
$26.35 AUD
$27.26 (3% off)
Category: History
Australians celebrate or commemorate a number of special days throughout the year.These special days give us the chance to reflect on the past appreciate our lives and look to the future together. Australians mark National Sorry Day on 26 May each year. This special day is a time to reflect on how gover ...Show more
Ten Pound Pom (PB) by Carole Wilkinson; Liz Anelli (Illustrator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: History
An important slice of Australia's immigration story, detailing the 1960s push for British migrants.I don't want to go to Australia. I have just started grammar school. My best friend Sally goes there too. But it looks like there could be another war and Dad has convinced Mum to go. Because we're migrant ...Show more
Evolution by Sarah Darwin, Eva Maria Sadowski
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Discover the story of life on Earth and how it came to be, with real-life scientists Sarah Darwin and Eva Maria Sadowski. The Earth has come a very long way from the molten planet with oceans of magma that existed 4.5 billion years ago. Since then, the land has shifted, the climate has changed, and life ...Show more
Our Country: Where History Happened by Mark Greenwood
$26.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Our Country Ser.
The second title in the OUR COUNTRY series, celebrating and contextualising the richness of Australia's history, and where it happened. In every corner of Australia, history happened. The pages of this book are a journey through tens of thousands of years. Our history is recorded in ancient rock art, in ...Show more
History FACTopia (HB) by Paige Towler
$25.99 AUD
Category: History
An enthralling and hilarious journey through global history in 400 connected facts! In this blast-from-the-past adventure you’ll discover hundreds of the most mind-blowing facts from history. Hidden tombs, ghostly ships, boiled vipers, samurai warriors, snow machines, pet lions, hidden pyramids, secret ...Show more
Just Like Me: 40 neurologically or physically diverse who broke stereotypes by Louise Gooding
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
The world is full of people who are a little different in one way or another. Our uniqueness is what makes us stand out and makes us who we are. You can never judge someone on something you can not see or even on the things you can see. We are all special. We are all unique. We are all 'different; not ...Show more
Rainbow Revolutionaries - Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History by Sarah Prager
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
One of Time Out's "LGBTQ+ books for kids to read during Pride Month," this groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused illustrated biography collection takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the lives of fifty influential queer figures who have made a mark on every century of human existence. Rainbow R ...Show more
The Last Light Horse (HB) by Dianne Wolfer
$10.00 AUD
$24.99 (59% off)
Category: History
The fourth and final book in the Light series, which began with Lighthouse Girl and includes the CBCA shortlisted Lighthorse Boy.There were 136,000 Australian horses sent to fight during the First World War. Just one came home. From the high country of Victoria to the desert sand of Egypt, from the wate ...Show more
Charlie's War by Vicki Bennett
$28.99 AUD
Category: History
Age range 4+A young Aboriginal boy’s dream of shearing sheep turns into reality. Then war breaks out in Europe. Despite initially not being able to enlist, he and his two best friends eventually sign up and their lives are changed forever. How this book came about: Vicki Bennett worked with Des Crump, I ...Show more